Appendix 1B – Narrative Updates Against Steps
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Appendix 1b – Narrative Updates against Steps Well-Being Objective 1.1: Cardiff is a great place to grow up Lead Steps Lead Directorate Narrative Update RAG Status Member Promote and fulfil children’s rights by Cllr Sarah Education & Cardiff is progressing toward becoming a ‘child friendly building a Child Friendly City in partnership Merry Lifelong Learning city’ where all children and young people have an equal with UNICEF UK between 2018 and 2021. chance to thrive and reach their potential. This will require partners to work together to make a city where the voices, needs, priorities and rights of children and young people are at the heart of public policies, programmes and decisions. The Child Friendly City strategy was launched in November 2018 with partners and progress is being monitored via a In delivery plan. The Council is currently in the progress implementation phase. The participation of children and young people in their own education, through the involvement of young people in the programme, continues to improve. Schools have made significant achievements towards becoming Rights Respecting. 65 schools received an award in the programme during 2019/20 (academic year 2018/19). Deliver the new schemes within the Cllr Sarah Education & Work is progressing on a number of schemes within the £284m ‘Band B’ programme of school Merry Lifelong Learning ‘Band B’ programme of school investment: In investment between April 2019 and 2024 The design of the new Fitzalan High School is progress to: underway with a revised programme for completion set for February 2023. Page 1 of 56 Lead Steps Lead Directorate Narrative Update RAG Status Member Increase the number of school places St Mary the Virgin tender package has been available; completed. It is anticipated work will go out to Improve the condition of school tender during summer 2020. buildings; Greenhill initial feasibility has commenced for Improve the teaching and learning current and new sites across the city. environment. The consultation for the Doyle Avenue scheme has ended and is being considered by the Welsh Government, due to changes to sixth form provision outlined in the proposal. Work also continues to progress improvements at Cathays High and on Early Years, Primary and Secondary School Provision to serve Adamsdown and Splott. Plans for the next phase of investment in the school estate, Band B, are being progressed. Prior to the completion of the Band B school investment programme, there are challenges in relation to meeting sufficiency requirements, particularly for secondary and additional learning needs (ALN) places, and short to medium term risks relating to poor building assets that need to be addressed. Deliver a strengthened programme of Cllr Sarah Education & Improved tracking and monitoring systems this year has academic and vocational provision for Merry Lifelong Learning enabled more scrutiny and challenge of the progress made learners educated outside of mainstream by Educated Other Than At School (EOTAS) learners. settings to improve learner outcomes 2018/19 results show that the performance of EOTAS In during the academic year 2018/19 and learners, when using the narrow GCSE measures, is still progress beyond. too low. The numbers of pupils EOTAS in Cardiff over the last five years has increased by 52.4% from 204 in 2015, to 311 in 2019. Page 2 of 56 Lead Steps Lead Directorate Narrative Update RAG Status Member Wider sources of performance information indicate that outcomes for learners who are EOTAS in the Pupil Referral Unit, training providers and college are improving. Nearly all learners achieve qualifications with many achieving more than three. Learner outcomes show year-on-year improvement with the proportion of learners achieving more than three qualifications and Level One increasing. A wide range of vocational qualifications were achieved in 2019 alongside some GCSEs. Work needs to continue to ensure that transfers to EOTAS from mainstream education are reduced, and in those circumstances where EOTAS is the best option, that the curriculum offer is of high quality. Reshape and enhance specialist provision Cllr Sarah Education & Good progress is being made to prepare for the and services for pupils with additional Merry Lifelong Learning implementation of Additional Learning Needs (ALN) learning needs to ensure sufficient, high- Reform at school/ setting, cluster, Local Authority and quality provision is available to meet the regional levels. 97% schools have completed ALN current and projected need from 2018 to readiness audits, and engaged in cluster planning. 2022. Four special school projects have been included in the Band B 21st Century Schools Programme. Seven additional projects were delivered in 2017/18 to increase In specialist resource base and special school places in both progress English and Welsh medium sectors. Progress is being made to extend provision for Early Intervention for foundation age pupils for September 2020. However, the demand continues to increase and the Local Authority continues to rely on placements in the independent sector. Stronger systems for monitoring the quality and impact of ALN provision in schools is needed. The Local Authority is Page 3 of 56 Lead Steps Lead Directorate Narrative Update RAG Status Member working with schools and the Central South Consortium to embed effective provision mapping, self-evaluation and improvement planning processes for ALN/inclusive practice. This would strengthen schools’ capacity to identify and address needs early on, as well as through school-to-school working and take-up of training. Support Cardiff schools to move towards a Cllr Sarah Education & A new curriculum for learners from 3-16 has been new curriculum, and to respond to new Merry Lifelong Learning developed which includes all the learning experiences and qualification and assessment frameworks, assessment activities planned in pursuit of the four with effect from Autumn 2019 until 2022. purposes of the Curriculum for Wales 2022. Curriculum for Wales 2022 seeks to allow for a broadening of learning, supporting settings and schools to be more flexible in their approaches, and provides education leaders and practitioners with greater agency, enabling them to be innovative and creative. Curriculum for Wales 2022 guidance has been made available and is planned to be rolled out in September 2022 for all year groups in primary school and year 7 in In secondary schools. The curriculum will roll out to Year 8 in progress September 2023 and year-on-year until it is introduced to Year 11 in 2026. There continues to be active engagement of teachers and leaders in the shaping of the new curriculum for Wales in a number of Cardiff schools. However, there are a number of challenges, including: Attracting and securing a high-quality workforce for schools, particularly in the context of changes to Initial Teacher Education (ITE); Ensuring that new qualifications meet the needs of learners in Wales, and that schools have plenty of time to plan and prepare effectively. Page 4 of 56 Lead Steps Lead Directorate Narrative Update RAG Status Member Address the maintenance backlog in Cllr Sarah Education & Circa £8.2m works on the schools estate was completed in schools, as part of a wider programme of Merry & Cllr Lifelong Learning, 2019/20. This was slightly less than projected because of Asset and Estate management, targeting Russell and Economic Covid-19. increased investment in schools that Goodway Development In require priority action by March 2020. Extensive work has been undertaken during 2019/20 to progress collate property information and refine processes moving forward. The Schools Annual Maintenance Programme for 2020/21 has been finalised. Support young people into education, Cllr Sarah Education & 220 employers have been engaged to date to support the employment or training by delivering the Merry Lifelong Learning, Cardiff Commitment initiative from the public, private and Cardiff Commitment, with a focus during and Economic third sectors. the academic years 2018/19 and 2019/20 Development upon: Open Your Eyes Week was delivered in the St Teilo’s and Creating school/business partnerships St Illtyd’s cluster in Jan/Feb 2020, providing the that target skills development in the opportunity for schools to engage with businesses around key economic growth sectors of the occupations and career pathways. Cardiff Capital Region; Introducing targeted programmes of The One Million Mentors programme has been launched support and mentoring for young in eight secondary schools and Cardiff & Vale College. The In people; Mini Police Programme was delivered to 21 primary progress Rolling out the ‘Open Your Eyes’ schools and will be rolled out to 21 schools again this year. careers week to seven secondary school clusters. 2018/19 data collated by the Local Authority shows that the year 11 EET (in education, employment or training) figure is 97.95% (3,162 out of 3,228 school leavers). 66 pupils were NEET (not in education, employment or training) (2%). Of the pupils registered as EOTAS (102 pupils), provisional data indicates that 92 progressed to EET in 2018/19. This represents 90.2%. 10% of EOTAS pupils were NEET (10 pupils). Page 5 of 56 Lead Steps Lead Directorate Narrative Update RAG Status Member Launch the ‘Cardiff 2030 Vision for Cllr Sarah Education & 'Cardiff 2030 – A ten year vision for a Capital City of Education’ by December 2019. Merry Lifelong Learning Learning & Opportunity' was launched in November 2019. ‘Cardiff 2030’ sets out an ambitious vision, underpinned by two themes, five goals and priority commitments. City- wide partnership and children's rights are key to the approach, recognising that Education is Everybody's Business and that Cardiff is aspiring to be a UNICEF Child Complete Friendly City. A series of engagement events and research were undertaken to capture a wide range of views and perspectives on developing the 2030 vision. This included school staff, children and young people, governors and partners – including higher/further education and employers.